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Strategic Designer. Current: Universal Credit…Newslettering: https://nitter.cf/t.co/riq2XbOt61 Eldridge.ETH

London, England
Joined November 2009
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A long shot but I don’t suppose anyone has seen or picked up a pair of glasses in #Balham this morning. Likely to be near #hildreath #market
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Glasses found! Thanks for the retweets
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I've gussied up my new personal website. I've tried to keep it as lightweight and flexible as possible using Jekyll. So far it is 87% greener than most web pages. I know I can make this even greener...strategyxdesign.co.uk/work/
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Twitter hive mind. Are there any examples where policy intent has actually changed as a result of taking a UCD approach? Asking for me. #ucd #servicedesign – at Greenwich, London
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Overheard at a workshop: “if we have any more icebreakers it’s going to be arctic”
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Trying to think of the time an app update has real life implications. In my case the latest BMW app has trashed the times charging feature of my EV (off peak when cheaper and greener). Plus the preconditioning of the battery when it’s cold. Result much lower range
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I shouldn’t be the case when designing public services, but today I ask the provocative question ‘how might citizens feedback their (dis) / satisfaction?’ 1/2
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The first response was for someone to laugh at the question, but others started to acknowledge it as a valid question. The lesson is don’t give up in changing fixed mindsets. (2/2)
Is there an example of a system that branched off an older system to become equally (or more) successful? Could be political, technological, entrepreneurial etc
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US constitution forked from British Rule
What with nuclear being in the news for all the wrong reasons, it feels like a threat from a different age. As a technology (not a weapon) it feels like it hasn’t evolved in the last 40 years. It will forever be a technology (not a weapon) that never reached its promise
Wow. This episode by ⁦@strongsongs⁩ on Talking Heads: Stop Making Sense is something special. Pulls the trick of bottling the energy of one of the best live performances committed to film strongsongspodcast.com/episo…
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I wanted to like The French Dispatch, visually stunning but little empathy towards the characters. It’s almost too clever for it’s own good
Day 4 1/2 of isolation. Almost out of it.